Employment & Skills

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Local Businesses Challenged in Police Cybersecurity Workshop

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Local businesses recently gathered at Barnstaple Library for a special cybersecurity workshop organised by the South West Police Regional Cyber Crime Unit and Lineal Software Solutions Ltd. Thirty participants from firms across the South West took part in a series of Lego-based group exercises highlighting key concepts in cybersecurity, as they sought to protect a […]

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Industry calls for Apprenticeship Levy payers to be able to fund wider skills training from their Levy cash

Education, Employment & Skills, Manufacturing /

Britain’s manufacturers are calling for an urgent rethink to Government’s Apprenticeship Levy to make access to funding more flexible so that industry can develop the essential skills of the future. The call comes on the back of Make UK’s report An Unlevy Playing Field for Manufacturers, which reveals that 95% of manufacturers want to see

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Make UK holds game changing manufacturing festival to inspire future generation

Employment & Skills, Event news /

One day programme for 16-24 year olds to develop creators, innovators and makers of the future Aspiring young engineers and apprentices will have the opportunity to learn from their peers and explore topics ranging from artificial intelligence to how they can help solve ecological concerns at an exciting one day festival being organised by Make

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Automation and digital advances to create better jobs in UK manufacturing

Employment & Skills, Manufacturing /

But low-skilled workers need retraining into better roles to avoid job losses A third of UK manufacturers expect some low skilled jobs to be lost over the next five years as a result of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. But over half of companies (54%) say they will up-skill these lower skilled workers to

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